Paediatric respiratory diseases
Respiratory infections
PG18 Postgraduate course
Cystic fibrosis: management in adult patients
Clinical
Registration for this session is additional to the congress registration fee and is €171 on site.
Aims : Access educational materials here to update both paediatric and adult professionals involved in cystic fibrosis (CF) care on the recent advances in many important aspects of CF; to describe the latest knowledge about CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) dysfunction in CF and how this influences the different organs and leads to new treatments modalities; and to address the special needs caused by CF as an adult disease, namely, the transition of adolescents into adult care, fertility and end-of-life issues.
Target audience :
Clinical researcher, General practitioner, Lung function technologist, Nurse, Paediatrician, Physiotherapist, Trainee, Adult pulmonologist/Clinician
Methods :
Public health
14:00
The ageing cystic fibrosis patient
A. Horsley(Manchester, United Kingdom)
COI
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Description
202
14:30
Caring for end-stage disease and lung transplantation
C. Benden(Zürich, Switzerland)
COI
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Description
203
15:00
Group assignment
A. Horsley(Manchester, United Kingdom)
COI
C. Benden(Zürich, Switzerland)
COI
204
16:00
CFTR dysfunction and its specific treatment
J. Davies(London, United Kingdom)
COI
-
Description
206
16:30
Fertility in adult cystic fibrosis
J. Maetz(Paris, France)
COI
M. Shteinberg(Haifa, Israel)
COI
-
Description
207
17:10
Group assignment
J. Davies(London, United Kingdom)
COI
M. Shteinberg(Haifa, Israel)
COI
208
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